Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,
In context
1 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 2 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, 5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, 7 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 7:4 in the KJV
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 7:4 in the NIV
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”